Egypt
BBC News Health (Jane Elliott)
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- Inside The Field Of 'corpse Medicine'
Daily Mail (Leon Watson) Doctors have long known that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. But in 'corpse medicine' - the idea of treating ills by swallowing body parts and fluids - a little sweetener wouldn't make a blind bit of...
- Book Review (catalogue): The Art Of Medicine
Art Museum Journal Allen, James P., et al. The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. With photos. Ancient Egyptians preserved one's ka (life force) after death through mummification. They were...
- Egyptian Mummies As Commodities
Suite 101 (Jenn Ostrowski) From medicine to entertainment, many ancient Egyptians did not get the peace they sought after death despite their efforts to preserve their dead. Ancient Egyptians believed that after death their souls would survive, and that...
- The Pharaohs' Pharmacists
New Scientist (Stephanie Pain) The online version of this article requires you to be a subscriber to the New Scientist magazine. However, the print edition is widely available if you want to get hold of the full article without subscribing. The article...
- Egyptians, Not Greeks Were True Fathers Of Medicine
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/uom-eng050907.php"Scientists examining documents dating back 3,500 years say they have found proof that the origins of modern medicine lie in ancient Egypt and not with Hippocrates and the Greeks. The research...
Egypt
What does medicine owe to Africa?
BBC News Health (Jane Elliott)
The contribution of European culture to medicine has long been recognised.
The Greeks are thought by many to be forerunners of modern medicine - they studied the progression of disease, they knew something of the inner workings of the body, and their language gave medicine many of its terms.
But the Greeks probably learnt much from the Ancient Egyptians who understood the workings of the body from practising mummification.
Imhotep, architect of the famous step pyramids, has even been dubbed the first "father of medicine" for his influence.
Egyptologist Stephen Quirke said that, although the information from the time is sketchy, Imhotep did have an important role to play.
He is credited with diagnosing and treating over 200 diseases and even performing surgery and dentistry. Some say his work even influenced Hippocrates.
See the above page for the full story.
- Inside The Field Of 'corpse Medicine'
Daily Mail (Leon Watson) Doctors have long known that a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. But in 'corpse medicine' - the idea of treating ills by swallowing body parts and fluids - a little sweetener wouldn't make a blind bit of...
- Book Review (catalogue): The Art Of Medicine
Art Museum Journal Allen, James P., et al. The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. With photos. Ancient Egyptians preserved one's ka (life force) after death through mummification. They were...
- Egyptian Mummies As Commodities
Suite 101 (Jenn Ostrowski) From medicine to entertainment, many ancient Egyptians did not get the peace they sought after death despite their efforts to preserve their dead. Ancient Egyptians believed that after death their souls would survive, and that...
- The Pharaohs' Pharmacists
New Scientist (Stephanie Pain) The online version of this article requires you to be a subscriber to the New Scientist magazine. However, the print edition is widely available if you want to get hold of the full article without subscribing. The article...
- Egyptians, Not Greeks Were True Fathers Of Medicine
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/uom-eng050907.php"Scientists examining documents dating back 3,500 years say they have found proof that the origins of modern medicine lie in ancient Egypt and not with Hippocrates and the Greeks. The research...